CNBC: Point-and-Shoot Cameras Are an Endangered Species
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
Thought the grain-of-salt-sized camera announced in Germany earlier this year was small? Well, researchers at Cornell have created a camera just 1/100th of a millimeter thick and 1mm on each size that has no lens or moving parts. The Planar Fourier Capture Array (PFCA) is simply a flat piece of doped silicon that cost just a few cents each. After light information is gathered, some fancy mathematical magic (i.e. the Fourier transform) turns the information into a 20x20 pixel "photo". The fuzzy …
For photo enthusiasts, Google's new Google+ social network is something like Flickr mixed with Facebook. It has the social sharing power of Facebook while providing features and tools Flickr users would appreciate thanks to the fact that Google runs a full-fledged photo-sharing service in Picasa (soon to be brought into the Google+ fold and renamed Google Photos). One such feature is the EXIF data section, easily accessed for each photo by Action->Photo Details. Most Facebook users would likely …
We've seen all kinds of ideas for keeping track of your camera's lens cap when it's not being used, including velcro, special mounts, fashionable pouches, and even a retractable cap, but Nikon has come up with the best idea yet: a lens cap that attaches to camera straps! A patent filed by the company in 2009 and published yesterday shows a lens cap that can easily clip onto a strap when not in use -- a simple solution to a small problem that apparently many entrepreneurs have been interested in …
Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time today, the final launch ever for NASA's Space Shuttle program. 18-year-old Ryan Graff was lucky enough to be flying to Miami as the Shuttle launched, and captured this awesome photograph of Atlantis' smoke trail using his iPhone.
"The Untitled Project" by photographer Matt Siber features urban scenes with all traces of text stripped away and reconstructed in a separate frame. Siber shot the original images in North America, Europe, and China over the past nine years.
Street photographer Eric Kim generated some buzz last month by recording himself shooting on the street with a GoPro mounted to his Leica M9. Now, he's back again with an even cooler point of view: through the Leica M9's viewfinder itself. This 10 minute video of Kim doing street photography in Santa Monica was recorded using a HTC EVO 4G smartphone stuck to the back of his camera.
Robots might not be able to convey emotions or tell stories through photographs, but one thing they're theoretically better than humans at is calculating proportions in a scene, and that's exactly what one robot at India's IIT Hydrabad has been taught to do. Computer scientist Raghudeep Gadde programmed a humanoid robot with a head-mounted camera to perfectly obey the rule of thirds and the golden ratio. New Scientist writes, …
Here's yet another painful-to-watch example of what the powerful lasers used at concerts can do to your camera's sensor. This poor soul brought their Canon 5D Mark II to capture some footage, and left with the camera having a new feature: white "framing lines"! Too bad they can't be turned off...
